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Thursday, February 2, 2012

Anti-gun Group to Boycott Starbucks on St. Valentine’s Day - The New American

While it is highly unlikely you have a CCW when you visit Starbucks in NYC, unless of course you play golf with the Mayor in Bermuda, I urge you to buy coffee on Valentine's day with $2 bills to support Starbucks stance on gun rights.

Elliot Fineman (left), CEO of the National Gun Victims Action Council (NGAC) announced
last Monday that its members will boycott Starbucks starting on St.
Valentine’s Day to protest the company’s resistance to demands that they
cease serving customers who may be carrying weapons, open or concealed.
Its purpose, according to Fineman, is “to eliminate the risk of guns in
public places and ultimately to bring sane gun laws to the U.S.”
Fineman claims that his group is “a network of 14 million gun victims”
and that his boycott is being supported by the Episcopal Peace
Fellowship, the United Church of Christ, the Fellowship of
Reconciliation along with other secular groups that also support the
anti-gun movement. Fineman said:

Starbucks allowing guns to be carried in thousands of their stores
significantly increases everyone's risk of being a victim of gun
violence. Open and concealed carry are among the reasons there are
12,000 gun homicides each year in the U.S. If we had England's gun laws
we would expect 375 gun homicides each year—97% less than we have.
England's gun laws are based on protecting public safety, ours on
maximizing sales for the gun industry…

Our boycott will reduce Starbucks’ stock price by an amount no rational company would allow.

It was two years ago that the Brady Campaign launched a similar boycott of Starbucks that “failed miserably” according to Dave Stockman, senior editor of Gun Week.
Noted Stockman: “Starbucks made it plain in 2010…that it [would] abide
by local and state laws and [would] not discriminate against a certain
class of customers. Many open carry advocates began patronizing
Starbucks…as a show of support.”

Stockman asked NGAC rhetorically just how many incidents have there
been in the history of Starbucks, which opened its first coffee house in
1971, involving a legally-armed citizen that resulted in criminal
violence? Answer: not a single one.

Perhaps a better question would be: how many customers spend time and
money at Starbucks either because they support open carry or because
they simply don’t mind “rubbing elbows with legally-armed citizens?” as
Workman suggests. And just how much of an impact will NGAC’s boycott
have on Starbucks’ bottom line?